Professor,
Center for Urban Science + Progress New York University
Julia Lane is an Institute Fellow at AIR, professor of economics, BETA University of Strasbourg CNRS, Chercheur, Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, and professor, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research, University of Melbourne. She was formerly director of the National Science Foundation'ʹs Science of Science and Innovation Policy program, senior vice president at NORC at the University of Chicago and
senior research fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Lane has authored over 65 refereed articles and edited or authored seven books. She has been working with a number of national governments to document the results of their science investments. Her work has been featured in Science and Nature, and she has testified on the topic to both the U.S. Congress and the European Parliament. She is a coeditor, with the late Jack Marburger, of the Handbook of Science of Science Policy.